Dear all,

ARCHE NOAH organises the next capacity building workshop on patents for organisations in Southern Europe (Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece).

The goal is to inform organisations and empower them to get active against patents on plants & animals.

Please feel free to forward the email to organisations that may be interested.

The 2 workshops take place on Friday, 8 October 13h-15h CET and Friday 15, October 13h-14.30h CET.

Best,

Johanna

Mag. Johanna ECKHARDT

Project Coordination

Tel. +43 680 21 26 343

mailto:johanna.eckhardt@no-patents-on-seeds.org johanna.eckhardt@no-patents-on-seeds.org

NO PATENTS ON SEEDS!

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From: Fulya BATUR [mailto:fulya.batur@kybelesrl.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2021 1:08 PM To: Johanna Eckhardt no-patents-seeds.org johanna.eckhardt@no-patents-on-seeds.org Cc: ARCHE NOAH Dagmar Urban dagmar.urban@arche-noah.at Subject: FW: WEBINAR INVITATION - No patents on seeds, plants, animals and beer! SOUTH EUROPE

Dear XX

I sincerely hope that all is well with you ! I am contacting you in the scope of an Arche Noah project on patents.

As you know, although European patent law provides for exceptions to limit its reach into the natural world, existing loopholes have been used by patent attorneys and large corporations to patent seeds, plants, animals and even beer. You can get some initial information here: https://www.no-patents-on-seeds.org/ Home | NO PATENTS ON SEEDS! (no-patents-on-seeds.org)

This particular project's goals are to provide the latest information on the topic, and build capacity for potential campaigns. To that end, we are holding a two-parts webinar series targeting Southern Europe, which will be held in English :

v Technical training & legislative update: Friday 8th October 2021 from 13:00 until 15:00 am CET

v Campaign history, current options & next steps : Friday 15th October 2021 from 13:00 until 14:30 CET

The full programme is attached to this email. You can register to both webinars using this https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__as0mpabSbaRwd4kAaAc7A link by 5th October 2021. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email to join the events.

I sincerely hope that you can make it, and circulate it within your association's network. Do not hesitate to forward this email to other individuals and organisations in Italy, Spain, Portugal and Greece that are engaged in seed saving, farming, or other parts of the food chain, as well as civil society movement with an interest and expertise in food systems, corporate control, or seed policy. We will focus on the aforementioned countries (including examples from national laws), but if you have contacts in other Southern European countries, which may be interested, do not hesitate to let us know.

You may get in touch with me or with Dagmar URBAN (dagmar.urban@arche-noah.at mailto:dagmar.urban@arche-noah.at ) if you have any questions.

We are convinced there is a currently a window of opportunity to stop patents on conventional seeds, plants and animals and would love to inform more organisations, movements and individuals and potentially join forces!

Kindest Regards,

Fulya

Fulya BATUR, PhD

Consultancy, Training, Research & Legal Advice

http://www.kybele-consult.com/ www.kybele-consult.com

0032.484.77.86.18

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